Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-15
Home Notes.

Homo Notes.
William Award of the Texas and
Pacific was in the city yesterday.
Several changes have been made in con.
ductors on the Texas and Pacific.
John H. Donaldson of the Missouri
Pacific was in Fort Worth yesterday.
THE GAZETTE will publish the solution
of the famous wine puzzle of the Hous-
ton and Texas Central about June l.
Harry a. Wood, connected with the
secretary's Office of the Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe, spent yesterday in Fort
Worth.
Il. W. Gabbett, Texas agent for the
Atlanta and New Orleans Short Line,
with headquarters at Fort Worth, has
returned from an extended trip.
Volney Hall, right of way agent Of the
Missouri Pacific, who now makes Fort
Worth headquarters, was in the city
again yesterday. Fort Worth is rapidly
becoming headquarters for all railroad
men.
1t is stated on good authority that the
Atchison-Gulf will shortly establish the
principal Office for the entire system for
livestock business in Fort Worth. Near
Iy ali their business of this kind will be
transacted in Fort Worth.
President Strong and party of Atchison-
nj II oli a mill
arrive in Fort Worth to-day, probably
about y O'Clock, but possibly
sooner. If our citizens desire
to see and entertain the distinguished
gentlemen they must be on the alert. The
party LETT Galveston at o'loCk yesterday,
and will likely stop at several points on
the line.
President Paddock of the Fort Worth
and Rio Grande gave the information last
night that the track of the road was COM
pleted to q point nine miles this side of
Grsnbury. By Saturday night the Citi
zens of Granbury will be able to hear the
whistle of the locomotive attached to the
construction train. If the weather is
favorable at least six miles OF track will
go down on the road this week.
At the junction of the Fort Worth and
Rio Grande and the Cleburne- Weather.
ford branch of the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe, in Johnson county, about TWEEN
ty-seven miles from Fort Worth, a little
city is to be built which will bear the
name of Paddock, in honor of President
Paddock of the Fort Worth and Rio
Grande. The city will be surrounded by
q fine country, and, with two railroads to
start with, cannot help but be prosperous.
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There are already more telegraph COM
panies doing business in Fort Worth than
in any other city in the state, and in
short time Fort Worth promises to have
twice as many telegraph companies doing
business here as Galveston, San Antonio,
Houston, Dallas or Ony other city in
Texas. We now have the West
ern Union, the Baltimore and
Ohio and the Fort Worth and Denver,
the latter being the ily line covering
$50 miles from Fort Worth to the Pan
handle. Our fourth line will be the Fort
Worth and Rio Grande Telegraph, and it
too, will cover a fine country. Fort Worth
is telegraph headquarters.
The new Missouri Pacific headquarters
established mere lew udyS dSo VIII NC
prepared for the reception Of the officials
this week. The building is to be fitted
up in fine style, and is one of the best To-
cations in the city. There are now three
railroad offices within a block OF
each other - the Missouri Pacific
in the Pythisn temple, the Houston
and Texas Central opposite the Pickwick,
and the Atchison-GuIf opposite the State
National Bank. The Fort Worth and Rio
Grande offices are only block above the
Missouri Pacific, and the Fort Worth
Western only block below the Atchison-
Gulf. The Fort Worth and Denver will,
it is said, very soon establish up town
offices. Verify Fort Worth is railroad
headquarters.